Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in Cementitious Construction Materials. Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to carbon dioxide sequestration based cementitious construction materials 2. Carbon dioxide sequestration by direct mineralization of fly ash 3. Aqueous-based carbon dioxide sequestration 4. Carbon dioxide sequestration using steel slag modeling and experimental investigation 5. Accelerated carbon dioxide sequestration 6. Methods for the assessment of carbon dioxide absorbed by cementitious materials 7. Carbon dioxide sequestration in magnesium-based binders 8. Carbon dioxide sequestration on steel slag 9. Carbon dioxide sequestration by phosphogypsum based procedure 10. Carbon dioxide sequestration on biocement-based composites 11. Carbon dioxide sequestration on recycled aggregates 12. Carbon dioxide sequestration by alkali-activated materials 13. Carbon dioxide sequestration on fly ash/waste glass alkali-based mortars with recycled aggregates: compressive strength, hydration products, carbon footprint, and cost analysis 14. Carbon dioxide sequestration of fly ash alkaline based mortars with recycled aggregates and different sodium hydroxide concentrations: properties, durability, carbon footprint, and cost analysis 15. Carbon dioxide sequestration of fly ash alkaline-based mortars containing recycled aggregates and reinforced by hemp fibers: mechanical properties and numerical simulation with a finite element method 16. Carbon dioxide sequestration of fly ash alkaline-based mortars containing recycled aggregates and reinforced by hemp fibers: properties, freeze-thaw resistance, and carbon footprint 17. Carbon dioxide sequestration on masonry blocks 18. Carbon dioxide sequestration on composites based on waste wood

Authors

Fernando Pacheco-Torgal Principal Investigator, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. F. Pacheco-Torgal is a Principal Investigator at the University of Minho, Portugal. He holds the title Counsellor from the Portuguese Engineers Association. He has authored more than 300 publications, 119 in Scopus and 107 in Web of Science-WoS. His publications have been viewed or downloaded almost 500,000 times. He currently holds the record for the highest Platinum SCI h-index and the highest K-index in the field of Civil Engineering in Portugal. He is in the Top 10 Platinum SCI h-index in the world for the field of construction and building materials. He is a member of the editorial board for 9 international journals, 5 referenced on Web of Science and two referenced on Scopus. He currently holds the record for the highest ratio (papers handled as editor/year) in the field of Civil Engineering in Portugal. He has acted as a Foreign Expert in the evaluation of 18 PhD thesis. In the last 10 years he has been a Member of the Scientific Committee for almost 60 conferences most of them in Asian countries. He is also a grant assessor for several scientific institutions in 13 countries, UK, US, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Saudi Arabia, UA. Emirates, Poland and, the EU Commission. He has also been an invited reviewer for 125 international journals and has reviewed almost 1000 papers. His review record places him at the Top 0.1% between 2 million reviewers registered in Publons. He currently ranks second place between more than 10.000 reviewers in civil engineering. He has been leading editor of 22 international books published by Woodhead Publishing, Elsevier and Springer, 10 being on the Master Book List of Web of Science. He currently holds the record for having the highest number of books indexed in WoS in the field of Civil Engineering in Portugal. Two of those books are the Scopus most cited ever in the field of Civil Engineering in Portugal. Caijun Shi Hunan University, China. Caijun Shi is a Professor of civil engineering at Hunan University, China. Angel Palomo Instituto de Ciencias de la Construcción Eduardo Torroja, CSIC, Spain. Angel Palomo is a Professor at the Instituto de Ciencias de la Construcción Eduardo Torroja, CSIC, Spain.